Course Overview
In today’s digital landscape, robust network and server security is essential for all organisations. This hands-on course is designed for IT teams ready to elevate their cybersecurity skills and proactively defend against real-world threats.
This course covers the methodology for performing effective security testing, an overview of common vulnerabilities and defensive mechanisms, and hands-on labs to let you test your understanding and experiment with common real-world vulnerabilities.
The Methodology
You won’t just learn about vulnerabilities in isolation. We will also discuss how vulnerabilities may be chained together to form an attack and how hardening and remediation activities can effectively prevent an attacker making progress.
There’s more to effective defence and secure system development than just knowing about vulnerabilities and their exploitation – we also cover the stages of an effective security test to ensure that your approach achieves good coverage.
Modules
Our course starts with a quick refresher of cybersecurity fundamentals and then builds on those fundamentals to ensure teams have all aspects covered. The course includes:
- Hacker Motivations
- Network Security Fundamentals
- Common Server Weaknesses
- Detecting Common Attack Tools
- Windows OS Hardening
- Active Directory Hardening
Hands-on Labs
Our bespoke hands-on labs are based on a realistic virtualised network, allowing you to safely test the skills you’ve gained during the day to ensure you’ve understood the fundamentals and can apply them to an example system:
- Network Mapping
- Vulnerability Discovery
- User Account Compromise
- Local Privilege Escalation
- Domain Privilege Escalation
- Network Propagation
- Gaining Persistence
Remediation
Whilst it’s often the least talked about part of security testing – remediation is of course the most important. It doesn’t matter how many vulnerabilities you find if you can’t quickly and effectively explain to the team how they can fix them. For each vulnerability discussed we will discuss a specific remediation, as well as giving examples of hardening options throughout to make devices more resilient to attacks in general.
This course is ideal for IT professionals looking to reinforce their foundational knowledge, stay ahead of evolving threats, and proactively secure their organisation’s critical infrastructure against attacks.